Wire tightener and splicer



J. D. RODGERS.

WIRE T'iGHlENEE AND SPLIGER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24,1908.

m w m 3 a me, c N 0 d d R m l J w 2 u m qvihmaacs UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. RODGERS, or oaoaoa'rown, KENTUCKY. wma mmcmzma AND srmoaa No. 902,764. Specification 01 Letters I'atent. Yatented Nov. 3, mos. hppiioation filed January 24, 1am. been No. 41am.

To all'whom'it may concern: of the wire together reliminary to s licing Be it known that 1, Jenna D. Booonns, the same. The hand eQbeing locate intercitizen of the United States, residing at... mediate the ends of the frame, admits of the Georgetown, in the county of Scott and i latter being conveniently manipulated, the 60 5 State of Kentucky, have invented certain strain and weight being equalized.

new and useful Improvements in Wire As shown in Fig. 1, the numeral indi- Tighteners and Splicers, of which the folcatcs the end of one wire and is secured to lowing is a specification. 1 the frame by the clamp comprising the WVhen splicin the ends of wires, it is usuparts 4 and 5. The other wire to be spliced 65 10 any required t at the same be drawn tois indicated at 11 and its terminal portion gether and'particularly this is the case when is engaged with the Windlass 7 by being wining the broken ends of fence wires or passed through an opening therein. The tele hone and telegraph wires. 1 end portions of the wires 10 and 11 overlap T e present invention provides a sim is or pass by each other in the place formed 70 and effective ap liance admittin of t e between the arms or members 3 and 6 0. ends of wires to Es spliced bein rawn tothe frame. Upon turning the Windlass 7'. ether and secured until the sp icing is efthe wires 10 and 11 are tightened or snbfooted, the means comprising an appliance jected to tension by winding the end portion for drawing the overlapped ends to ether, of the wire 11 upon the Windlass 7. Un t'o and a clam for securing the over apped winding of the wire from the Windlass T is ends and ho ding the same during the operaprevented by the. usual ratchet mechanism tion of twisting the terminal or one wire 12 consistin of a ratchet wheel fitted to an about the end portion of the other wire. extension 0 the Windlass 7 and a pawl piv The invention will be more partioplarly oted to a side of the bracket 8. After'the 80' 26 set forth hereinafter and pointed out in the wires are tightened a clamp is fitted to the appended claims and illustrated in the drawoverla ped end portions oi the wires at a ings hereto attached forming part of 'the point etween the arms 3 and 6 as mdloated a specification, and in which: most clearly in Fig. 1. After the clainpfias 1 Figure 1 is a perspective view of the inbeen secured to the overlappedends of the an ventio'n applied; Fig. 2an end view of the wires, the tightener is removf and thaend iightener, one arm being broken away; Fig, iortion of one wire is wrap ed around ad- 3 is a side view of the clamp, the frame beacent wire and the end portion of the latter ing in section; and Fig. 4 is a detail view in i is app llbmlb the fi g lsj l perspective of a li e, th d tt d line w 1re, forming the well known splice, as b1 9 showing the position of the clamp withtrefdlcated in Flg. 4. The clamp consi t of erencc to the splice. frame 13 of '-ap roximately U-for ,1 the Corresponding and like parts are referred member? of h M ing i011 it, 31111 81 to in the following description and indi ated Slots 14 m which the end portionsfo clamps j in all the views of the drawings by'the ame 15 are fitted. A set screw 16 tifi ifgidgd into 9 reference characters. f the closed end of the frame 13 serves to force The tightener consists of aframe 1 ofmpthe mp members 15 togfit i' t ifithe proximately U-forrn, a handle 2 being fi ov rlapp nds o e w res placed *twbsn to. the horizontal portion of the frame. ne

them. The frame 13 is reinforced atits arm or member '3 of the frame is rovi ed closed end, as shown at: 17, the m ddle he with a clamp, the same consistin o a cla p tion being thickened, asshownv 'at.18 lever 4 and a jaw 5, the latter eing an rovided with-a threaded opening ii'n which. tegral part of. the arm or member 3 d is fitted the set screw 16'. formed by bending the extremity thereof. Ha ln us'de prlbe h flvelition f wiiati v The op osite arm or member 6 1S provi ad is claime as new lS; 10p at its upper end with a Windlass 7, the s e 1 In} Wir lmer, tha-oomb natiortof an being journaled at one end in the upper d a proximately --shaped rain 1 rnp at of the part 6 and at its op osite end 'a t 0 end of one arm of the frame jlorseeurbracket 8 secured to a. side 0 the inembe mg one end of the Wll'ot-Ob pa ed, andfa arm 6. A crank handle 9 is fitted to on end Windlass mounted upp'n the extremity of M5110 of the windlass 7 to admit of turnm the opposite arm and a pted tosec ire the and same when it is required to draw the pends of the other wire to be and to P0315- iively draw the two wires together to secure the requisite tension preliminary to splicing.

2. In a wire splicer, the combination of n approximately U -shaped frame having the terminal portion of one arm bent laterally to form a jaw, a can) lever pivoted to said arm and cooperating with the bent end thereof to i one of the wires, a bracket secured to a si e of the op iosite arm, a windiass mounted in said brac ret and in the ad jacent arm and adapted to receive the other I wire to Wind the same thereon for drawing the two Wires together, and means for preing backward rotation of the Windlass :r the wires have been subjected to the i proper tension.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AMES D. RODGERS. Witnesses V. B. HILLYARD, W. N. Woooson. 

